“American Oasis” quite rightly closes with a discussion of water. As the old saying goes ... the people of the Southwest are creating a new multiethnic society in the desert. For this, they deserve a ...

Las Arenitas is an artificial oasis that recycles used water from the border city of Mexicali to regenerate ecosystems in the ...

In “American Oasis,” Mr. Paoletta ... now questions whether newcomers “who have sought to master the Sonoran Desert with air conditioning and aqueducts” can really call the region home.